The British elections begin. PM Stanley Baldwin’s platform includes: higher duties on imported manufactured goods, using those as a bludgeon to negotiate lower foreign tariffs, imperial preference in imports. He claims to be concerned by unemployment and thinks protective tariffs are the only way to deal with it. It’s only been a year since the last elections, so this one is entirely down to Baldwin, who wants a mandate for protectionist tariffs. He might come to regret this decision.
The Duchess of Atholl is standing for Parliament, despite having been a prominent campaigner against women’s suffrage. She will win.
Pres. Coolidge meets a delegation from the National Woman’s Party, who ask his support for the Equal Rights Amendment. Sidestepping that, he tells them he’s sure Congress will respond favorably.
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The Bavarian branch of the German Officers’ Association finds his behaviour “spotless” and says the poor naif was deceived by Hitler.
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Countess Hardwick of the Hohenlohe royal line, after an ill-fated trip to the Budapest Zoo. I haven’t been able to confirm this story, but Christian Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg, who I presume is related to her, was charged in 2008 with killing mountain zebras in Namibia. Not sure if the Hohenlohe-Zebra feud continues.
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